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Introduction to Costab (English)

Abstract

Costab is designed to help project analysts organize and analyze project costs. It performs the tasks as: calculates physical and price contingencies, taxes and foreign exchange; produces detailed and summary project cost tables; produces financing plans... See More +Costab is designed to help project analysts organize and analyze project costs. It performs the tasks as: calculates physical and price contingencies, taxes and foreign exchange; produces detailed and summary project cost tables; produces financing plans and disbursements profiles; produces procurement tables; produces a suggested loan allocation table; shows project costs by implementing agency and project area; converts financial costs to economic costs for economic analysis; stores financial and economic data in excel for further processing. Costab consists of a set of divisions (data structures) that organize the data that Costab uses to produce its reports. Each division specifies a coherent set of data and relationships. For instance, the data used to produce a detailed cost table is contained in the detailed. Setting-up divisions is the major work that you do when you use Costab. Engineers, agronomists, architects, educators, financial analysts, and economists should use Costab to analyze and summarize project costs. This work should begin early in the project design and preparation process.
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